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tole-netr the top of the tree , whence flows * liquor which they I» r /c-Theswr.receive into pots fattened underneath, at first it i* in taste and co- 1lout like milk, it quickly seuretb.

la Cttngtntr they make hony of it aster thit manner, within Novas orbitthree dayes (sot after of it? own nature, it proves vinegar) they Iosepfaut Indfiboyl it in Caldrons, or Kettles untill t wo parts bee wasted, and CIU *then it is very sweet hony. Of this hony mixed with water,and purged twenty dayes together, they make an excellentsweet wine. I might speak of the /»d»4» Palm, ot Coco-tree,which likewise yeelds hony, bat 1 will adde no mote.

CHAP. XXIV.

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W Ax is either natural or artificial, the natural Wax isthe gross part of the combs, containing the hony andBee-bread, lomctimes the Seminaries for generation. And this iseither V trgin-wax, or of a courser sort: - the Virgin-wax is that .which is made by a swarm, or a stock new driven, not that only I

which is made by the younger Bees, as Scrim, fox they work r urg!c.i. *altogether.

Th;S is ca !ed-b- s m-?r,p 0 //r, as- AlJrtvanJ, obfervesoutActuar.de .of And %cubtnntt Largm , It might bee expected, composmed.

that 1 should spea somewhat of Profaiit » Com me sis, Mity, andPifficera, used anciently in Physick, and sapposed to bee madeby the Bees. But 1 can finde no agreement among Philosophers,nor yet Phyitians what they ate , and am certain that they arenot what Arifletle, Pi/uy, and others determine them co be,andtherefore 1 will leave the difeutti n co others. Only in a word, -Mi\y faith Arifteil *, is the black dross of wax of a sharp Arist.de hist.smell, I suppose he means the fcces of the wax when it is melt- anim 1.9 c L,.ed and strained ; fiopilit seems, faith Scaligtr a uanstative sii- j^hg.com. >0 <name of Aii.y. Ioc *

CaZd translates it C»mmps, but Pliny, make a diffe- plin.lib |r,c,7 >rence between Comm»jis> and Prapoltt, wherefore Scaltger wasof opinion, that Commons and Mhj were different things.

Scriboniui takes Virgin-wax (as before) for Fnptlti -,Silva-

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